Reads....

(A)
Finished the second part of (in)famous trilogy by V. S. Naipaul. It is not hard to comprehend why the book evoked vehement response.
Although, the book as far the scholarship goes is not the most accurate (understandably, with Vidia dismissing even legitimate griecvances of nationalists with distortion of history as denial).
However the book is right on the mark where it matters, that is the problem with Indic civilization.
V S comments (astutely, for someone who was not born here) the fundamental malice of
India is the  fact that she is bereft of ideas. 
Instead of original thinking, Indians borrow ideas wholesale from the outside, centuries of subjugation have turned us into intellectual parasite. In fact the things have come to such a pass that the very idea of civilization has withered away.
This sucking on west's udders, import without application will explain the earlier tryst with socialism, and present flirting with libertarianism (I predict that in coming decade our intellectual class will be overwhemingly libertarian), and I have no doubt that results will be only slightly better than the former, that too 
in medium run, long run will be same saga of decay.
Civilization do not prosper, neither do nations become great because the labour (skilled or unskilled) is cheap. Human destiny is founded upon ideas, and as someone who is reaping the benefit of labour of countless thinkers over countless millenia, we, the modern man have obligation, nay it is the morality crucial for all ages to replenish the fount of intellect.

(B)

Currently reading Mother. This novel by Maxim Gorky became the clarion call for socialist revolution resulting ultimately in Bolshevic revolution.
This makes one wonder Gorky was appropriated by Communists, Nietzche by Nazi, Premchand by so called Dalit activists and Iqbal by pro-Pakistan elements. The only conclusion is that literature and politics do not go together.